Medical Suffix Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
-ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -ic, -ous, -tic | pertaining to |
-algia | painful condition, pain |
-blast | embryonic |
-cele | hernia, swelling, sac |
-centesis | puncture of a cavity |
-clasis | break or fracture |
-clysis | irrigation, washing |
-coccus | berry shaped |
-crit | to seperate |
-cyte | cell |
-desis | fusion, binding, fixation |
-drome | to run |
-dynia | pain |
-ectasis | expansion. dilation |
-ectomy | excision,removal of a body part |
-emesis | vomiting |
-emia | blood |
-er | one who |
-gen | forming, producing, origin |
-genesis | forming, producing, origin |
-grade | to go |
-gram | the record made, mark |
-graphy | the process, process of recording |
-ia, ism | condition |
-iasis | morbid condition |
-iatry | treatment,medicine |
-icle, ole, ula, ule | small, minute |
-ist | one who specializes in |
-itis | inflammation |
-lith | stone,calculus |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-ology | process of study |
-lysis | dissolution, setting free |
-malacia | softening, soft |
-megaly | enlargement |
-meter | instrument for measuring |
-metry | act of measuring |
-odynia | pain |
-oid | form, shape |
-ology | study or science of |
-oma | tumor |
-opsy | viewing |
-or | one who |
-orrhea | flow, discharge |
-osis | condition, disease |
-para | to bear (offspring) |
-paresis | partial paralysis |
-pathy | disease, suffering |
-penia | deficiency, lack of |
-pexy | fixation |
-phagia | eating, swallowing |
-phasia | speech |
-philia | attraction for |
-phobia | fear |
-physis | to grow |
-plasia, plasm | formation, growth |
-plasty | mold, shape, repair |
-plegia | paralysis |
-poiesis | formation, production |
-ptosis | downward, falling |
-ptysis | spitting |
-rrhage, rrhagia | bursting forth |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-scope | instrument to visually examine |
-scopy | process of visual examination |
-sis | state of, condition |
-spasm | involuntary spasm |
-stalsis | constriction |
-stasis | control, constant level stop |
-stenosis | narrowing, stricture |
-stomy | creation of an opening |
-therapy | treatment |
-tome | instrument for cutting |
-tomy | process of cutting, incision |
-toxic | poison |
-tresia | opening |
-tripsy | surgical crushing |
-trophy | nourishment |
-y | process |
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